Oh, what the Hell! Let's squeeze one more story in and finish out the month of January 2024 on a screaming high note, eh? And let's do it the way we started off the month, with an Atlas quickie, this time from the April 1953 issue of Astonishing #24, and graced with some sizzlin' hot art by wild man, Chuck Winter. And what's up next for THOIA in Fearbruary, you ponder? Stay super tombed and you shall see!
4 comments:
As a dentist myself I enjoyed that a great deal more than I should have.
"You've killed more suckers than there are eggs in a dozen." That's great! It doesn't make a lot of sense internally but it's a great noir line.
I love that splash, it really stands out! I love the weird dime-store Morticia on page 2, and who doesn't like a good pitch from demon/devil on the last page?
OK let's talk about that great cover for a second: The title is there, but also the DDS kicker -- that's one where the artist must have gotten a little bit more info. I love the zombie nurse!
I've said this about Chuck Winter before--I know, I went back and checked--but I just really love the solid and formidable sense of weight he achieves in his figure drawing. These people are all carved out of oak, man. This is an artist I would have loved to see working in the late Silver Age bullpen. I imagine he would have added so much street magnitude to titles like Luke Cage.
I liked the story, too. It's maybe a little padded in the build-up, but that communicates the excruciating predicament this protagonist is suffering quite well.
This makes me want to see a non-horror story, where a character like Al Helfer finds a painless dentist and looks after him in a big way.
It would be a little similar to stories like THE PRESIDENT'S ANALYST, where the two spies protect the title character partly because he's their psychiatrist.
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